Tobacco-pipe cleaner



Get. 7 1924.

F. PFABE TOBACCO PIPE CLEANER Filed Aug. 1, 1921 Fania o'a.7 ,19z4. 1,510,499

UNETED STATES PATENT OFFHCE;

FRITZ PFABE, or rinirzre-sonrnnssrc, GERMANY.

rosAcco-rrrn CLEANER.

Application filed August 1, 1921. Serial No. 488,766. I

To all whom it may concern: springy rasps 6, whose normal position, 40 Be it known that I, FRITZ PFABE, of Leipwhen they are not under restraint, is as in-. zigfichleussig, Germany, a citizen of the dicated by bnoken lines in Fig. 1. A ring a German Republic, have invented certain new embraces the shanks of these rasps, enabling 5 and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Pipe them to be drawn together as shown in Fig.

Cleaners, of which the following is a speci- 1. hen the ring is pushed up, and the fication. rasps are inserted into a pipe bowl (Z, as The object of this invention is to provide shown in Fig. 2, the elasticity of the shanks an improved appliance for easily and efleo holds the dished heads of the rasps tightly 10 tively removing the incrustation which is against the Wall of the bowl, which can be formed on the inside of the bowls of tobacco cleaned by turning the rasps. pipes. A cleaning rod or picker 6 fits into a hole To this end I provide a plurality of re in the handle a, from which it can be withsilient rasps attached at one end to a handle, drawn for use, and the handle is shaped so the other ends diverging from each other, that it can be used for pressing down the with their rough operative surfaces outtobacco in a pipe bowl. wards, these operative ends of the rasps WVhat I claim as; my invention and desire being more or less curved or dished to acto secure by Letters Patent oi the United commodate themselves to the interior of the States is 20 pipe bowl, against which they are held, when A tobacco pipe cleaner comprising a in use, by the elasticity of the material. handle having a cavity therein extending" I may form the handle with a socket or lengthwise from one end thereof to Within a passage for a picker or cleaning rod for the short distance of the other end, a plurality stem of the pipe, and may shape this handle of rasps having elastic shanks extending so that it can be used for pressing down the into said cavity and fixed to the handle at tobacco in a pipe bowl. the base of said cavity, said rasps being Around the shanks of the rasps Imay dished and integral with said shanks, a slidplace a slidable ring, which draws the rasps able ring embracing said shanks, enabling closely together when slid towards their the divergent ends of said rasps to be con- 30 operative ends, when the appliance is not in tracted, and a. removable pipe picker fitting use. into said handle and extending through said The invention is illustrated in the annexed cavity between the shanks of the rasps. drawing, in which In witness whereof I have signed this Fig. 1 is an elevation of the appliance, specification in the presence of two wit- 35 and V nesses.

Fig. 2 a vertical section thereof, with a FRITZ PF ABE. pipe bowl indicated by broken lines. I/Vitnesses:

In the drawing a designates the handle, Loren ZSGHERNY, into which are fitted the shanks of three WERNER SoHMrr. 

